Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display

The technological advancement currently led to countless inventions that has changed our daily lives. Multitouch is one of the most widely popular technologies integrated into the majority of our devices. Devices such as smartphones and tablets are by far the most successful touch-enabled d...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sim, Shu Xian
Other Authors: Chi-Wing Fu, Philip
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63053
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
id sg-ntu-dr.10356-63053
record_format dspace
spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-630532023-03-03T20:35:31Z Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display Sim, Shu Xian Chi-Wing Fu, Philip School of Computer Engineering Game Lab DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Computer graphics The technological advancement currently led to countless inventions that has changed our daily lives. Multitouch is one of the most widely popular technologies integrated into the majority of our devices. Devices such as smartphones and tablets are by far the most successful touch-enabled devices in the current society. Not only so, the number of fields which are incorporating multitouch into their system are expanding rapidly. Amongst them, medical visualization in the modern healthcare system is one of the upcoming projects. The data from a Computed Tomography (CT) scan can be visualized into a 3D model of a patient’s topography, enabling surgeons to better analyze the patient’s condition. This project aims to develop an application extended over a multitouch tabletop display, which displays the 3D model in real-time and integrating multiple gesture interactions for the users to manipulate the volume object. At the end of this project, an application was developed successfully to meet the requirements of the project. The application includes various basic interactions that allow users to freely manipulate the 3D model. In addition, it also consists of a 3D cross-sectional view of a sliced image that a slicing plane has cut through. The application can be further extended to incorporate other interactions and also onto other platforms in the further for diversity. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2015-05-05T07:37:38Z 2015-05-05T07:37:38Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63053 en Nanyang Technological University 41 p. application/pdf
institution Nanyang Technological University
building NTU Library
continent Asia
country Singapore
Singapore
content_provider NTU Library
collection DR-NTU
language English
topic DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Computer graphics
spellingShingle DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Computer graphics
Sim, Shu Xian
Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display
description The technological advancement currently led to countless inventions that has changed our daily lives. Multitouch is one of the most widely popular technologies integrated into the majority of our devices. Devices such as smartphones and tablets are by far the most successful touch-enabled devices in the current society. Not only so, the number of fields which are incorporating multitouch into their system are expanding rapidly. Amongst them, medical visualization in the modern healthcare system is one of the upcoming projects. The data from a Computed Tomography (CT) scan can be visualized into a 3D model of a patient’s topography, enabling surgeons to better analyze the patient’s condition. This project aims to develop an application extended over a multitouch tabletop display, which displays the 3D model in real-time and integrating multiple gesture interactions for the users to manipulate the volume object. At the end of this project, an application was developed successfully to meet the requirements of the project. The application includes various basic interactions that allow users to freely manipulate the 3D model. In addition, it also consists of a 3D cross-sectional view of a sliced image that a slicing plane has cut through. The application can be further extended to incorporate other interactions and also onto other platforms in the further for diversity.
author2 Chi-Wing Fu, Philip
author_facet Chi-Wing Fu, Philip
Sim, Shu Xian
format Final Year Project
author Sim, Shu Xian
author_sort Sim, Shu Xian
title Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display
title_short Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display
title_full Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display
title_fullStr Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display
title_full_unstemmed Multitouch exploration of CT medical data with an iPad and a tabletop display
title_sort multitouch exploration of ct medical data with an ipad and a tabletop display
publishDate 2015
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63053
_version_ 1759853850119897088